Munyao Kilolo is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Ituĩka Literary Platform. He previously served as the Managing Editor of Jalada Africa, where he conceptualized and led their inaugural translation project. The project saw one story, originally written in Gikuyu, translated into 100 languages. He also previously served as the director of the Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize and projects officer at the Ngugi wa Thiong’o Foundation. His writing in his mother tongue, Kiikamba, has been published in the 26th issue of Absinthe: World Literature in Translation. Munyao is pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.
